Have you changed your views? How are you coping with that?
2006-12-07 11:41:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Suprisingly not as much as I thought. I have been a vicitim of abuse by a priest (who was my uncle) and yes my faith was affected quite significantly. However I went to World Youth Day in Canada in 2002 and Pope John Paul II spoke about this topic. He apologised for the few people in the church who do these horrible things and said not to judge the church just by those few people. Another way to put it is this. When the allegations were going around about various National Rugby League teams, people were upset, but they didn't stop watching football just because some people MAY have made a mistake.
My trust in God has come back slowly but i'm back at church and practicing Catholicism to the best of my ability
God Bless
2006-12-07 11:47:16 · answer #1 · answered by farrellangela 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
At first, i was disgusted, and then i thought about growing up in the catholic church, which i'm still a faithful member. I never had a priest to treat any of the children, male or female in any sexual way. we had 2 priests, which are still there, and they treated us with dignity, always raising our self esteem--which this world loves to destroy. whenever i thought i couldnt' do something, they would remind me that i am God's child and i can do anything through the power of God. which this has never proven to be false. itrust my priests with my 3 year old son now. their are a lot of bad people, even in church. the other day one of the local baptist church had their preacer arrested for raping little girls!so, it goes without saying that whether it's the catholic church or another domination, evil can be found everywhere--but God will bring them out to face the consequences.
2006-12-07 19:53:42 · answer #2 · answered by Jesus junkie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has not affected me at all because the statistics show that it is across the board with ALL religions. If the Truth were to be told according to the statistics the Baptists have the highest number of offenses recorded.
2006-12-07 20:39:23 · answer #3 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It hasn't affected my faith, but it really has saddened me. I've worked in the church for years and to hear these stories just feels like a betrayal - this is NOT what a man of the cloth is supposed to do. I guess priests are human too and subject to doing dispicable things. To me, such men are NOT men of God.
2006-12-07 19:45:19 · answer #4 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually it has confirmed my faith. When anyone undertakes to represent the Lord Jesus Christ without the power of the Holy Spirit in their life, the Devil is going to chew them up and spit them out.
"holding the form of religion, but denying the power of it. Avoid such people" (II Timothy 3:5)
2006-12-07 19:48:40 · answer #5 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
blah blah blah, do not judge or that judgement God will use against you. If everyone worried about themselves oh what a wonderful world this would be.After all all child molesters are catholic right?WRONG! 2 out of 3 children are molested, 75% by a family member.
2006-12-07 19:46:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
no. i can go to any group and find 'bad apples'.
dirty cops
teachers who mollest
rabbis who mollest
married with children who mollest.
to say 'well i guess catholics are bad because A small percent out of hundreds possiblely thousands of priests acted bad' is just silly.
2006-12-07 19:55:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose it's bugging them just like it's bugging Born agains about Ted Haggard
2006-12-07 19:48:43 · answer #8 · answered by Rosebee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear Catholics;
Search for God.
2006-12-07 19:46:39 · answer #9 · answered by avaddohn-Apollyon 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋